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Kosovo Conflict Produces Many Legal International Criminal Law Issues |
The conflict in Kosovo has produced thousands of international criminal law issues and is a laboratory for their resolution. |
Bruce Zagaris |
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1999-05-01 |
Kosovo |
International Criminal and Comparative Law |
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European Parliament Passes Resolution Urging Adoption of Second Commission Report to Extend Money Laundering Directive |
On March 9, 1999, the European Parliament passed a resolution reommending extension of the Council Directive 91/308 of 10 June 1991 on prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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5 |
1999-05-01 |
Europe |
Money Laundering |
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Libya Hands Over Two Lockerbie Suspects |
On April 5, 1999, the two Libyans accused of planting the bomb that caused the Lockerbie air disaster on Pan Am Flight #103 were brought to the Netherlands for trial, ending a near eight-year... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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5 |
1999-05-01 |
Libya |
Terrorism |
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U.S. and UK Warn Financial Community to Avoid Antigua |
On April 7, 1999, the U.S. Department of Treasury advised U.S. banks and other financial institutions to further scrutinize all financial transactions routed into or out of Antigua and Barbuda. |
Bruce Zagaris |
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5 |
1999-05-01 |
Antigua & Barbuda |
Banking Supervision |
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Former U.S. Journalist Held Hostage in Lebanon Sues Iran Government |
On March 22, 1999, Terry Anderson, the U.S. national and former journalist who was kidnaped and held hostage for more than six years in Lebanon, and his family sued the Iranian government, seeking $... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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5 |
1999-05-01 |
Lebanon |
Kidnaping |
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Operation Casablanca |
On March 30, 1999, two large Mexican banks, Banca Serfin and Bancomer, pleaded guilty to money laundering charges. |
Bruce Zagaris |
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5 |
1999-05-01 |
Mexico |
Money Laundering |
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U.S. Regulators Withdraw Proposed Know Your Customer Regulations |
On March 23, 1999, federal regulatory agencies withdrew the proposed know your customer regulations that would have imposed important new due diligence requirements on the private sector. |
Bruce Zagaris |
15 |
5 |
1999-05-01 |
United States |
Customs Enforcement |
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UN Will Use Satellite Monitoring to Identify Illegal Drug Cultivation |
During the third week of March, 1999, the United Nations International Drug Control Program obtained the approval at the annual meeting in Vienna of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs to use its own... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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5 |
1999-05-01 |
World |
Drug Enforcement |
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Pinochet II |
The House of Lords issued its second substantive decision in the Pinochet extradition case on 24 March 1999 after having revoked the first because of a conflict of interest due to contacts by one of... |
Dr. Kai Ambos |
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5 |
1999-05-01 |
Chile |
Human Rights |
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Editor's Note: British Home Secretary Allows Extradition to Proceed |
On April 15, 1999, British Home Secretary Jack Straw announced he was allowing the Pinochet extradition to proceed, stating the remaining allegations of torture and conspiracy to torture satisfy the... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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5 |
1999-05-01 |
United Kingdom |
Extradition |
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Mexico Extradites to the U.S. a Mexican National Charged With Drug Trafficking |
Mexican authorities recently extradited to U.S. authorities a Mexican national charged with drug trafficking and espcaping from a U.S. federal prison. |
Rodrigo Labardini |
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5 |
1999-05-01 |
Mexico |
Drugs & Trafficking |
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Extradition Treaties Signed by the U.S. But Not In Force |
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Bruce Zagaris |
15 |
4 |
1999-04-01 |
United States |
Extradition |
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Swiss Distribute Holocaust Payments and Norway Approves Payments |
On February 23, 1999, according to the World Jewish Restitution Organization, the media reported the Fund for Needy Victims of the Holocaust will start sending checks for $502 to each of the 60,071... |
Bruce Zagaris |
15 |
4 |
1999-04-01 |
Switzerland, Norway |
Law of War |
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Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties Signed by the United States |
: Inter-American convention on mutual assistance in criminal matters. Done at Nassau May 23, 1992. Signed by the United States jan. 10, 1995. (Senate Treat Doc. 105-25, 105th Congress, 1st Sess... |
Bruce Zagaris |
15 |
4 |
1999-04-01 |
World, United States |
Extradition, Mutual Legal Assistance |
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Asian Society Agrees to Return Stolen Sculpture to India |
During the second week of January 1999, the Asia Society decided to return an 11th-century Indian sandstone relief that had been stolen from a provincial museum in Dhubela, in central India, to India... |
Bruce Zagaris |
15 |
4 |
1999-04-01 |
United States, India |
Art and Cultural Property |
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German Parliamentary Members Call for Sanctions against U.S. for Execution of Germans |
On March 4, 1999, some members of the German Parliament and other leading Germans accused the U.S. of “barbarism” and of violating international law for executing in Arizona by cyanide gas Walter... |
Bruce Zagaris |
15 |
4 |
1999-04-01 |
United States, Germany |
Human Rights |
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New York Appellate Court Orders Museum Not to Return Austrian Art |
On March 16, 1999, a New York state appeals court ruled that the Museum of Modern Art must not return two Egon Schiele paintings to Austria until the prosecution completes a criminal investigation... |
Bruce Zagaris |
15 |
4 |
1999-04-01 |
United States, Austria |
Art and Cultural Property |
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French Court Dismisses Human Rights Actions Against Castro |
: On February 26, 1998, Judge Herve Stephan dismissed three civil complaints against Cuban President Fidel Castro, ruling that French law does not cover the alleged crimes... [more] |
Bruce Zagaris |
15 |
4 |
1999-04-01 |
France |
Human Rights |
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U.S. Forfeits and Returns to Mexico Stolen Manuscript |
On February 24, 1999, the U.S. Government announced it obtained an order for the forfeiture of an 18th-century manuscript that had been previously in the Sotheby’s auction house, so that the... |
Bruce Zagaris |
15 |
4 |
1999-04-01 |
United States, Mexico |
Art and Cultural Property |
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Report on Convention against Torture Criticizes U.S. Policies |
: In October 1998, the Coalition against Torture and Racial Discrimination (hereafter CTRD) released a report criticizing a number of U.S. international and domestic criminal law policies and... |
Bruce Zagaris |
15 |
4 |
1999-04-01 |
United States |
Human Rights |